The wonderful world of GnomeVFS - All the file operations have
been shifted to the GnomeVFS architecture (previously it was the
POSIX complaint standard C FILE API). This means you can edit files
directly from the web, ftp, even across networks using protocols
like Samba etc, basically the ones supported by GnomeVFS. Including
those from secured sites which require usernames/passwords.
Example: ftp://username@password:ftp.mysite.com/my/websites/files/index.html

GtkHTML Preview click functionality - now you can click on a
link in the Preview Pane, and Peacock will open the new file for
you in the editor. Something to pamper the lazy web hacker.

Anjuta 1.1.97

Anjuta is a versatile IDE for C and C++, written for GTK/GNOME.
Features include project management, application wizards, an
onboard interactive debugger, and a powerful source editor with
browsing and syntax highlighting.

There are source .tar.gz and Red Hat Linux 9.0 binary and source
packages available at the download page. Other distribution
specific binary packages are likely to be released soon by other
vendors. It should install fine in RedHat 9, but may require some
additional dependencies to be satisfied for RedHat 8.0 systems.

Attachment points for emblems and embedded-text rectangles for
icons using separate layers.

Alias symlinks specified in the XML file

translated display names for icons (would need intltool support
to be completely useful.)

Owen Taylor
26 June 2003

GDM 2.4.2.95 (unstable)

WAKIWAKIWAKIWAKIFOOO

(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down
first)

[For a stable version use version 2.4.1.4]

So the last release was kind of crap. The graphical greeter was
broken, it didn't actually include the theme document, it didn't
compile on non-linux, and other whacky things were wrong. So this
release fixes all that (yeah right:)

Also note that I got confused by someone telling me the freeze
was pushed back and so there are new features (I couldn't help
myself). So this time around it is actually frozen (I think). I was
never good with this freeze thing :)

And now for the standard part of the release announcement:

GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, it is the little proggie that
runs in the background, runs your X sessions, presents you with a
login box and then tells you to piss off because you forgot your
password. It does pretty much everything that you would want to use
xdm for, but doesn't involve as much crack. It doesn't use any code
from xdm, and has a more paranoid and safer design overall. It also
includes many features over xdm, the biggest one of which is that
it is more user friendly, even if your X setup is failing. The goal
is that users should never, ever have to use the command line to
customize or troubleshoot gdm. It of course supports xdmcp, and in
fact extends xdmcp a little bit in places where I thought xdm was
lacking (but is still compatible with xdm's xdmcp).

When you log in twice on a different server, gdm warns you and
if both logins are console logins on linux, then you can have gdm
switch consoles for you instead of logging on.

Errorgui (failsafe) dialogs now run mostly under the gdm user
and not as root

In the .desktop files we now refer to GDM as Login Screen and
not GDM, fixes #85543

Add ALL_SERVERS to the socket protocol which returns all the
displays

DESKTOP_SESSION is set in addition to GDMSESSION. Also these
are unset in the standard Xsession file not to pollute the env
namespace.

Add CDE session .desktop (Brian Cameron)

Remove some debugging output (and make it only output stuff
when debug is on)

Fix the output reading of failsafe yes/no dialog

Fix some typos in config stuff (Ali Akcaagac, me)

Graphical greeter should now work again (Frederic Crozat, Diego
Gonzalez, me)

Fix compilation on non-pam setups and non-linux setup

Fix default paths (Brian Cameron, me)

Actually include the theme document!

Minor other fixes

Translation updates (Christian Rose, Vincent van Adrighem)

Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen
<mkp@mkp.net>, and has for a
while now been maintained by the Queen of England. She is usually
not responsive to bug reports or feature requests. You can try to
send them to me however.

Note2: If installing from the tarball do note that make install
overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf. It will
however save backups with the .orig extension first.

Sorry no RPMS. There is a spec file included in the tarball and
it may or may not work (it should, and it did some time ago but I
haven't tried it lately).

Have fun,

George

PS: I have become an evil Red Hat intern tuesday. I have not yet
managed to take over the company, but this is in progress. I still
have not yet even managed to get a @redhat.com email addy. I am
pretty much at the same stage here as I am with taking over the
world. I have however figured out a strategy. Instead of using
force, I will attempt to take over the world by the world
volunteering to be taken over. So then this is your notice that
everyone (including you) should volunteer to be taken over. Right
now! Unless you don't want to of course. Wonder if this will work
...